John Mulaney is opening up about the intervention that saved his life. In his new Netflix comedy special, “John Mulaney: Baby J”, Mulaney got candid about the changes in his life over the last few years, including a stint in rehab and the intervention with his famous friends that got him there.
Mulaney admitted that he was addicted to a cocktail of drugs, and was heavily using cocaine when a group of 12 friends in the comedy community gathered together in person in New York and over Zoom, under the guise of “dinner with a friend from college,” to encourage him to enter rehab.
Calling it the “‘We Are the World'” of alternative comedians over 40,” Mulaney said everyone from Fred Armisen to Nick Kroll were on hand to voice their concern over Mulaney’s well-being. “Let me just call this out now, I don’t mean to be weird.
It was a star-studded intervention. It was, like, a good group,” Mulaney told the sold-out crowd. “It was a good group. As mad as I was when I walked in there, I was like, this is a good lineup, this is really flattering in its own way.” He continued, “It was like a ‘We Are the World’ of alternative comedians over the age of 40.
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